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Apparently, duct tape does fix EVERYTHING!

12-05-2010, 02:19 AM

Soooo, apparently the "handyman" who was doing some work at this poor old lady's home, spotted a leak (which he may have also caused to begin with) and offered to repair her main supply line from the meter to the house. She agreed....

Luckily, someone spotted this before the guy could backfill his trench. All signs indicate he had absolutely no intention of ever mentioning this.

My guess is he put a pick or shovel through it while digging. There seems to be a plastic bag under the duct tape....

Oh, and she even had to rent tools for him to do the job (jackhammer and concrete saw).

"When we build let us think we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work that our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone upon stone, that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! This our fathers did for us."
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

Soooo, apparently the "handyman" who was doing some work at this poor old lady's home, spotted a leak (which he may have also caused to begin with) and offered to repair her main supply line from the meter to the house. She agreed....

Luckily, someone spotted this before the guy could backfill his trench. All signs indicate he had absolutely no intention of ever mentioning this.

My guess is he put a pick or shovel through it while digging. There seems to be a plastic bag under the duct tape....

Oh, and she even had to rent tools for him to do the job (jackhammer and concrete saw).

Duct tape is mm mm gooooood.

Is that a regular solder joint on that coupling that's about to be buried?

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well any body knows you need to cut the ends out of a tin can and split it to cover the hole before one uses the duct tape,

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Yeah, but you have to be careful these days. The plastic in the new Eco bottles is too thin and won't hold up to the weight of the dirt like the good old plastic bottles. The rule of thumb is to use three of the new eco bottles where you would use one of the old ones.

Don't forget to use a good grade of duct tape not the crap they sell at the big box stores.

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Just as an update, it wasn't just the top of the pipe that was broken....the bottom of the pipe was split but the duct tape did a good job at holding it together.

Oh, and as everyone would expect, there was clay sitting inside the pipe. I can just see it now....pieces of clay would have eventually caused a blockage, and someone would have run a cable down the line, and been confused as hell when he pulled out duct tape on the end of his cutter.

soooo, apparently the "handyman" who was doing some work at this poor old lady's home, spotted a leak (which he may have also caused to begin with) and offered to repair her main supply line from the meter to the house. She agreed....

Luckily, someone spotted this before the guy could backfill his trench. All signs indicate he had absolutely no intention of ever mentioning this.

my guess is he put a pick or shovel through it while digging. There seems to be a plastic bag under the duct tape....

Oh, and she even had to rent tools for him to do the job (jackhammer and concrete saw).

note per upc that water service should be running at least 12" above or to the side of sewer pipe !